“Sshh…she’s sleeping.”

 

I closed the door behind me, approaching my wife. “I’ll be quiet.” I whispered before wrapping my arms around her waist and looking over her shoulder to see the bundle of joy in her arms. “She’s so beautiful.” I couldn’t help but smile as I gazed upon my daughter’s face. “Just like you.”

 

Tiffany couldn’t help but smile at me as I said that. “You say that now but I bet she’ll act just like you in the future.” She joked, chuckling as quietly as possible.

 

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I furrowed my eyebrows at her in confusion.

 

I turned back to child in Tiffany’s arms, watching her fingers play with the significantly smaller ones gently. “I mean, I bet she’s going to a dorky, childish but a great, sweet, humble, smart, wonderful leader.”

 

I chuckled. “Definitely.”

 

For a few seconds, there was only silence—but a good one. The silence was for cherishing this moment and realizing how lucky we are to have a future like this. Our life could just have easily been a lot more different than right now and I can’t even begin to explain how grateful about having this exact life.

 

What if I hadn’t saved Tiffany? My heart would’ve been untouched forever.

 

What if I never had that fight which almost ended our relationship? Our love wouldn’t have been as strong.

 

What if Tiffany had died? …I’ll go with her.

 

Everything I did had a significant reason.

 

And I’m so happy that throughout all those hardships and adversities, I got this in return.

 

“I’ll put her down now.” Tiffany mumbled, moving to the crib, placing our daughter down gently on her bed and tucked her in.

 

When she turned back to me, I pulled her close, planting a soft kiss on her warm lips. “I love you.” I whispered with my whole heart.

 

“I love you too.” Tiffany showed a beautiful eye-smile towards me while I tightened my grasp on her arms.

 

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I pulled my wife out of the nursery before closing the door silently and heading to the living room with my hand around hers. “UMMMAAA!!” A high-pitched voice screamed along with fast footsteps coming from upstairs. Tiffany let go of my hand, turning to the source of the voice and soon, our 4-year-old daughter, ran down the stairs and jumped in her arms. “Umma…” She cried in her arms.

 

“What’s wrong?” Fany asked with a soft voice while her hair.

 

“Monsters…” She mumbled, digging her face deeper in the hold of her mom.

 

I laughed lightly, patting her head. “Monsters aren’t real, Miyeon-ah.”

 

“They are!” She whined back, starting to cry.

 

“Alright, alright. Let’s go upstairs and deal with the monsters.” With Miyeon in Tiffany’s arms, we both went up to the second floor and in her room. She whimpered when we the lights, yet it revealed nothing.

 

“There’s nothing here, sweetie.” Fany giggled, planting a soft kiss on the top of our daughter’s head.

 

“There is!” She continued to argue and pointed at the far wall.

 

We both walked closer to the wall, trying to find where she was trying to point to. “Where?” I asked. Miyeon continued to quiver but she pointed up.

 

Fany and I slowly looked up…finding a nonchalantly crawling cockroach on the ceiling.

 

A high-pitched scream erupted in my ears, along with a lot of shouting. “Bulaebulaebulaebulae!!” Tiffany quickly ran outside of the room, taking Miyeon with her. “TaeTae!! All hands on deck! Prepare for battle! Man the cannons!!” She screamed mindlessly, forgetting that we’re not a ship anymore.

 

I laughed hard. She’s always acting like this if there’s a bug around. Even if we stopped sailing 2 years ago after we got married, once there’s even a ladybug, she forgets that we’re not on a ship. But to load a cannon for a cockroach? Hilarious.

 

“Yah! Stop laughing, just kill it! Your daughter is scared too you know!!” Tiffany continued to squeal.

 

“Fine fine!” I stood on a stool nearby, holding a shoe in my hand and quickly got rid of it.

 

“Why is it so lively here?” A recognizable voice asked, I turned my head to the doorway, finding Fany to be greeting Yuri and Jessica.

 

“Aunt Sica!!” Miyeon exclaimed, holding her hands out to Jessica with an eager smile. I chuckled, running to my best friend and sister-in-law. 

 

“She’s taken a liking to you, sis.” Tiffany smiled lightly as Jessica received a big hug from her niece.

 

I hugged my former first mate, receiving a big hearty hug from her as well. We haven’t seen each other in a year. “How’s the Atlantic, friend?” I asked Yuri, eyeing her captain’s coat with a proud smile.

 

“No one even dares to battle us after we defeated The Elven Beast anymore, Taeng. No action bores me to death.” Yuri sighed. “But on the brighter news, Fallen Angel is still the same as when you last saw it.”

 

“Wait! Yah!!” We both turned to Jessica, who had Miyeon upside down in her hold. Tiffany quickly took action, taking back our daughter. “I think both of your adventure instincts piled up on this one.” Jessica sighed in relief to see Miyeon unharmed and was now giggling in Fany’s arms.

 

I laughed, patting the little troublemaker’s head. “Then maybe she can take over Fallen Angel once you guys start to settle down.”

 

It was suddenly silent. When I turned back to both of them, they were just staring at each other with shy smiles. “Did I say something?” I mumbled, finding the situation to be a bit heavy.

 

“N-No…it’s just that…” Jessica lifted her left hand, showing a beautiful ring. “Yuri proposed to me last night before we docked to your town’s port.”

 

I widened my eyes, staring at the big gem on her finger. I turned to Yuri, hitting her arm. “Why didn’t you tell me about this in your letters!?” I scolded her. She just smiled apologetically.

 

“Omaigawd~ I can’t believe you guys are getting married!” Tiffany said, still in denial, checking out the ring on Jessica’s hand with the toddler in her hand.

 

“Married! Married!” Miyeon cheered, clapping.

 

I just smiled at the feel-good moment.

 

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The four of us sat around the fireplace, chatting away after we put Miyeon to sleep and had dinner, there was nothing left to do but catch up on each other.

 

“You know, Miyeon reminds me very much of Taeyeon…but she completely acts like Fany.” Jessica commented, following it with laughter.

 

“I totally agree!” I stood up, showing how much I go along with that sentence.

 

“What? She does not, she’s 100% Taeyeon.” Tiffany denied.

 

I sat back down, turning to Tiffany. “Are you kidding? If she didn’t have my resemblance, I’d think she’d be a ghost of your past.” Yuri laughed hard with my remark. “She screams whenever there’s a bug around, she loves to pout and everything else about you.”

 

“Fine.” My mushroom gave up, pouting.

 

“See!” I tapped her lips with my finger lightly.

 

The night was just such a fresh breath of air. It was lively and light, filled with smiles, laughter and hundreds of memories relived.

 

The life I led as of this moment in my life is complete bliss. Sure, there are problems and the unknown waiting for me in the future but…I know I can handle them. I won’t let anything ruin this life I currently have.

 

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my life on the water, is that…you can’t just wait for something to happen. You have to work hard for what you want…and what you deserve.

 

Decisions have to be made.

 

Mistakes are meant to be done.

 

Sacrifices are always necessary.

 

And if you think you did the right thing, you’ll get a life with the least regrets and problems.

 

“Right, TaeTae?” Tiffany showed her wonderful eye-smile to me. I smiled at back at her, saying,

 

“Right.” Even though I had no idea what was going on anymore.

 

I decided to love Tiffany. I made the mistake of almost letting Tiffany go. I sacrificed my original dream…and in return, I got a better dream. One where I felt contented in my life.

 

To be able to make your life to be at its fullest is hard work. But it’s worth it.

 

The person who can give you that is…

 

Yourself, right?

 

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That's the end of this fanfic ^^ 

Kamsahamnida! My first ongoing on AFF has been successful because of all of you! ^^ I can't thank you everyone enough. Saranghamnida~! *places a heart sign over my head*

This is definitely not my last ongoing so wait for my inspiration to kick in~ haha. Though, I'll post a few more one/two shots that I have in the back of my mind, along with a special kind of drabble collection ^^ I'll try to branch out on other pairings as well, so fighting to myself lol

Oh. If anyone here has a soshified account and you're scrolling on the fanfic forum and see this exact story, don't be surprised and report it please ^^;; I'm gonna start posting there again any time soon, you see. :) Yes, I posted first on soshified a year ago before moving here so I'm not used to the curriculum in AFF ^^;; I don't write 100+ chapters like everyone else...which is still puzzling me how you guys can manage such an amazing feat. You guys are amazing lol. Even the great authors in soshified have written 50 and below number of chapters. 

So that's it for this story, see you guys around :)

 

PS:

Miyeon = Miyoung + Taeyeon. keke.